NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9403, 9 January 1894, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Bakbour Board meets to-day, A maw in Sydney was recently fined 40a for cutting off his wife's hair. . The harvest in the north of South Australia is turning out most satisfactorily. s The Wesleyans hare purchased a church Bite in the township of mcKeazie, Cheviot , Estate. ,r . The manufacture of pure grape brandy - In Victoria is said to be a very promising industry. ! ■: The New Zealand Electrical Syndicate has now connected 3000 lights under ifci private lighting contract, to about lOC different premises in Wellington. The balance-sheet of the Manawati Rabbit Extermination Society shows thai

since October 19, 1892, the society has paid for 10,053 skins afe a cost of £254 8s lid. A petition in bankruptcy has been lodged against Antonio Martin, late of Sfe. Mary's Road, in the city of Auckland, builder, the petitioning creditor being George McCaul. Mr. Goodall, civil engineer, and several workman have gone to Taurantra on their way to Motiti, in order to effect improvements to the tramway used for shipping cattle. ' -- A free fight on the sports ground at Pahiat.ua on Boxing' Bay resulted in one man being carried off in a comatose condition. He was struck in the region of the heart and rendered insensible. A number of the officers of the French warship Scorff have visited the Free Library, and inspected the Grey collection and the Arb Gallery. They expressed themselves as very much pleased with their visit

The Rev. S. Ironside, now residing in Hobart, writes to the New , Zealand Wesleyan describing the meeting which took place ab Bay of Islands when Captain Hobson laid the Treaty of Waitaagi before the natives.

At % meeting of the Garrison Committee held in the Drill Shed last nights, it was decided that the annual firing for the Gordon Shield will take place on the last) Saturday in the present month (January 27). The teams will be-composed of five men, and the distance# will be 200 yds, 300 yds, 400 yds, and 500 yds. The following is the state of Her Majesty's prison, Auckland, for the week ending January 6, 1894 :—On remand, 1 male; penal servitude, 32 males; hard labour, 54 males, 7 females; imprisonment, 3 males, 1 boy ; received during the week, 3 males, 2 females ; discharged, 4 males, 1 female; total in prison, 90 males, 7 females. A former resident of Reefton, who is now at bush work near Pahiatua, writes to a Reefton paper that the supply of men there is not equal to the demand. The wages offered are Is per hour. If those men who stop in towns, he adds, and talk about having no work would go into the country they would find plenty of employment. A determined suicide was committed at Springhill (New South Wales) on the 28th lit. Mrs. Schultze, who was ill in bed, lent word to the police that her husband lad threatened to kill her with a razor and then kill himself. When the police arrived >hey found Schultze quiet. Immediately ihey left he committed suicide by shooting limself with a revolver. Schultze was re* covering from the effects of drink.